Michel Foucaultâ€™s last works tell us that parrhesia is the act offearlessly speaking the truth.To engage in parrhesia is never, however, aâ€˜neutralâ€™ act. Parrhesia simultaneously incorporates aesthetic andethical dimensions. The parrhesiast is someone whose fidelity to the truthbecomes the pivot of a process of self-transformation.

Parrhesia is a journal that aims to gather a range of thinkers to examinethe intersections between questions of subjectivity, politics, ethics,aesthetics and truth, intersections which both theoretically andpractically form the critical points in our culture and in our time. AsWalter Benjamin suggests it is these â€˜perilous critical momentsâ€™ uponwhich the very act of reading, writing and thinking must be based.

Parrhesia is affiliated with the Departments of English and Philosophyat the University of Melbourne, and with the Melbourne School ofContinental Philosophy. The journal will be published twice a year in Juneand November

At this stage the submissions are directly solicited by the editors,however from September 2007 we will be taking more general submissions .If you would like to propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract toone of the editors.

Regards, the editors

FEATURE ESSAYS

Thinking Between Disciplines: An Aesthetics of KnowledgeJacques RanciÃ¨re, translated by Jon Roffe

Foucault, Freedom and Truth EmergenceKimon Lycos, with an introduction by Matthew Sharpe